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ArticleBlood2011

Assessing the potential for AAV vector genotoxicity in a murine model.

Hojun Li, Nirav Malani, Shari R Hamilton, Alexander Schlachterman, Giulio Bussadori, Shyrie E Edmonson, Rachel Shah, Valder R Arruda, Federico Mingozzi, J Fraser Wright and 2 more

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Article in Blood, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 129 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

129 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Hojun LiDepartment of Hematology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Nirav Malani
Shari R Hamilton
Alexander Schlachterman
Giulio Bussadori
Shyrie E Edmonson
Rachel Shah
Valder R Arruda
Federico Mingozzi
J Fraser Wright
Frederic D Bushman
Katherine A High

Funding

Favored Sites for HIV Integration in the Human GenomeR01AI052845 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI BUSHMAN, FREDERIC D · 2002 to 2017
$5.6M
Massively Parallel Analysis of Integration in Therapeutic Gene TransferR01AI082020 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI BUSHMAN, FREDERIC D · 2009 to 2018
$3.5M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNHLBI NIH HHS N01 HV078203NHLBI NIH HHS N01 HV78203-4-0-1NIAID NIH HHS AI082020NIAID NIH HHS AI52845NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI052845NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI082020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene transfer using adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors has great potential for treating human disease. Recently, questions have arisen about the safety of AAV vectors, specifically, whether integration of vector DNA in transduced cell genomes promotes tumor formation. This study addresses these questions with high-dose liver-directed AAV-mediated gene transfer in the adult mouse as a model (80 AAV-injected mice and 52 controls). After 18 months of follow-up, AAV-injected mice did not show a significantly higher rate of hepatocellular carcinoma compared with controls. Tumors in mice treated with AAV vectors did not have significantly different amounts of vector DNA compared with adjacent normal tissue. A novel high-throughput method for identifying AAV vector integration sites was developed and used to clone 1029 integrants. Integration patterns in tumor tissue and adjacent normal tissue were similar to each other, showing preferences for active genes, cytosine-phosphate-guanosine islands, and guanosine/cytosine-rich regions. [corrected] Gene expression data showed that genes near integration sites did not show significant changes in expression patterns compared with genes more distal to integration sites. No integration events were identified as causing increased oncogene expression. Thus, we did not find evidence that AAV vectors cause insertional activation of oncogenes and subsequent tumor formation.

Indexed as

AnimalsCarcinoma, HepatocellularDependovirusDisease Models, AnimalGenetic TherapyGenetic VectorsGene Transfer TechniquesHumansLiver NeoplasmsMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMutagenesis, InsertionalMutagenicity Tests

Identifiers

PMID21106988
PMCPMC3069673

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